If I can’t make it through one door, I’ll go through another door or I’ll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.

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The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but that makes our life in harmony with all existence. ― Rabindranath Tagore

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The one who plants trees, knowing that he will never sit in their shade, has at least started to understand the meaning of life.

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When we accept any discipline for ourselves, we try to avoid everything except that which is necessary for our purpose; it is this purposefulness, which belongs to the adult mind, that we force upon school children. We say, “Never keep your mind alert.

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If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.

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I have spent a fortune travelling to distant shores and looked at lofty mountains and boundless oceans, and yet I haven’t found time to take a few steps from my house to look at a single dewdrop on a single blade of grass.

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By plucking her petals you do not gather the beauty of the flower.

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Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.

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Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come.

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The burden of the self is lightened with I laugh at myself.

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